Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-01-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular corresponGcnt.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. s. ISS7


The great annual leyee at the WMtc
House last saturday passed off pleasant
ly to both host and guests. Legislators
and officials, judiciary and diplomates,
soldiers and sailors, veterans and civil
ians, old age and youth, wealth and
poverty, fame and obScurity, aristocra-
cy and democracy, came, as usual, to
pay respect and express good wishes to
the Chief Magistrate.
As the President was just recovering
from another rheumatic attack which
had kept him prisoner for more than 4
week, 1t was thought he would not be
able to endure the whole ordeal of
the thee hours of handshaking, but
would be compelled to retire from IA
tigue before the reception was over.
His condition was the cause of much
solicitude on The part of Mrs. Cleveland
and the Cabinet officers, who wanted
him to remein seated during tie inter-
walls between the reception of the var-
ious bodies. He would not yield to
their wishes, boWeyer, but stood up to
his task braVely until the last, though
he was very tired.
After the officials had passed through
the public was received, and Visitors
then came in, frQm actual count, at the
rate of 800 to every ten minutes. The
tiIrOnG soon became dense inside the
Mansion. The Blue Room, in which
the receiving party stood, BECAME SptfO-
catingly warm and the perSpiratiGn
rolled from the Presidents face in
streams. The c0rridors were chOked
with people, and before the police cOuld
induce them to move into .he East
Room, some ladies tainted.
This Was the first time since 1881
when presidents wife has appeared at
a New Years reception in the White
House, and the first in thirty years
since a Democratic Presidents wife
has presided there, 1857 being the last
year that President and Mrs. Pierce
were at the Executive Mansion. Con-
sequently the pleasure expressed at
haying SO young lady as Mrs. Cleve-
land there is not a matter of surprise.
One member of the Corps Diplomatique
diplomat who was SO delighted with
Mrs. Cleveland. that, after shaking
hands with her, he testified his admira.
tion by kissing the inside Of his own
hand which had touched hers.
NOugI IDS VIII COuVtil0 again IO-DOT-
row. Since it adjourned for the holi-
days, General Logan's death has made
the Illinois senatlrship q subject of in
teresting speculation. It is regarded
as a matter Of considerable political i'm
portance, for the reason that whoever
receives the complimentary vote of the
Democratic Members of the Illinois
Legislature, Will naturally become a
conspicuous fgure OF his party two
years hence, in case the Democrats
should then control the Legislature.
1t is too early 10 say what effect the
death of General Logan will haye upon
his party, but the opinion is freely eK-
pressed here that the Republican Or
gallization of Illinois will be seriously
broken by the loss of its trusted leader,
SO much so as to render the capture Of
the state by the Democrats, at the next
election, more than probable. BY that
time it will be thirty years since Hn Ill
inois Democrat was elected to the
United States Senate and the scramble |
for the place, with the slightest chances
Of success, would be unprecedented.